People keep telling me I have a very poetic way of using language when I write
This resonates with me, because my mother, who didn't write poetry, nonetheless had a very poetic way with language. I have saved many of her letters to me, and their written beauty is part of the reason why.
Spoken poetry requires both well-written language and a speaker able to shoulder the weight of communicating it to an audience, and I salute those who can do it. But like you, I enjoy reading poetry, and have some books of poetry that I return to intermittently. Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" is one such book.
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Date: Sunday, 19 January 2025 08:58 pm (UTC)This resonates with me, because my mother, who didn't write poetry, nonetheless had a very poetic way with language. I have saved many of her letters to me, and their written beauty is part of the reason why.
Spoken poetry requires both well-written language and a speaker able to shoulder the weight of communicating it to an audience, and I salute those who can do it. But like you, I enjoy reading poetry, and have some books of poetry that I return to intermittently. Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" is one such book.